The IDbTransaction interface allows an inheriting class to implement a Transaction class, which represents the transaction to be performed at a data source. For more information about Transaction classes, see Transactions and Concurrency (ADO.NET).

An application does not create an instance of the IDbTransaction interface directly, but creates an instance of a class that inherits IDbTransaction.

Classes that inherit IDbTransaction must implement the inherited members, and typically define additional members to add provider-specific functionality. For example, the IDbTransaction interface defines the Commit method. In turn, the OleDbTransaction class inherits this property, and also defines the Begin method.

Notes to Implementers

To promote consistency among .NET Framework data providers, name the inheriting class in the form Prv Transaction where Prv is the uniform prefix given to all classes in a specific .NET Framework data provider namespace. For example, Sql is the prefix of the SqlTransaction class in the System.Data.SqlClient namespace.